That year the Soviet military set up a base on Big Diomede, also known as Ratmanov Island, and the islanders were forcibly resettled on the Siberian mainland. Update for 28 July. Surreal photo of ...

Although Russia's Big Diomede Island and Alaska's Little Diomede Island are in fact about 2.5 miles apart and you can see one from the other, the viral photograph purporting to document that view ...

Life in Diomede, Alaska, is unlike anywhere else in the United States. Just 2.4 miles from Russia's Big Diomede Island, the city of 83 people can see the border from the shore. "We're safe ...

Women on Diomede split walrus hides on the large boulders ... a reindeer roundup and the construction of a sod igloo. In one photo a woman fishing for flounder stands on ice so clear she appears ...

Susan Nedza, the district's Unalakleet-based chief school administrator, said the principal of Little Diomede and workers shared photos of the building collapse Sunday. The district’s ...

Military observation posts operate along the upper ridges of the Russian island of Big Diomede. There is a base on the northern side and no civilians. In contrast, the American island of Little ...

The Diomede Islands are in the Bering Strait separating continental Russia and the continental United States. The archipelago has an island each assigned to Russia and the US - Little Diomede ...

From vanishing ice to shifting walruses, Native Alaskans living on Little Diomede have watched their home transform with disturbing speed. Ed Soolook, a retired U.S. Army veteran and Native ...

The isolated city of Little Diomede is in the middle of the Bering Strait off Alaska, US, and is separated from Russia's Big Diomede by only a stretch of choppy sea. Residents in their homes can ...

It’s been a full month since regular helicopter service was halted to remote Little Diomede in the Bering Strait. The aviation company flying to the island village blames a combination of ...

Big Diomede (Ratnamov Island) belongs to Russia and Little Diomede (Krusenstern Island) to the U.S. - they are about 10 minutes from each other by boat. They are separated by 3.8 km and a 23-hour ...